St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-10

spectfully yours, etc:
julius S. GRINNELL.
States Attorney.
Mr.. Ingham, who assisted in the pros
ecution, added word of approval, and
Judge Tuthill wrote the following:
'In view of the above statement of
Judges Gary and Grinnell and Mr.. Ing
ham, touching Fielden and Schwab,
and as well in consideration of what l
myself know of the facts of the case as
affecting these two men, l sincerely
recommend and hope that executive
clemency may be extended to each of
these men. RICHARD TUTHILL."
Judge Jameson
added his approval, and Mr.. johnson
left for Springfieldlast night and laid
the papers before the governor to-day.
Judges Gary and Grinnell will take no
steps in favor of the Communication of the
other condemned men. There is reason
for thinking that the governor will be
favOrably impressed with the petitions
in the cases of Fielden and Schwab, and
that he will commute their sentence to
imprisonment for life, while the other
anarchists will hang. However, at this
writing, when nothing is known, sus-
penSe is the usual attitude. There is
nothing new at the jail, nothing new on
the streets. and unfortunately no change
in the hearts and breasts of the widows
or orphans already made, or of the
wives and children who look forward to
Friday morning with terror and appre-
| hensiOn. Lingg'S defiant attitude, his
| Gagged hyena bearing, his idiotic eX-
pressions of
Contempt for the Human Race
in general and the official portion
thereof in particular, have brought
about their normal harvest. 1t seems
strange that toward one who stands
literally in the shade of the gallows.
| from whose uplifted beam will fall with
unerring mark a moose on Friday
morning, there should be any feeling
other than that of pity and commiser-
alton, but as matter of fact the COM
munity is divided, so far as he is con-
/
! As was predicted in these dispatches
last night, the tone of the public and the
tone of the press have absolutely
changed, and to-day, without exception
from one end of Chicago to the other
and i'll every newspaper, is expressed
the hope that Lingg in any event will
swing, and that no strained mercy will
be shown to either of his companions.
Lingg'S manner toward his confeder-
ates is not calculated to elevate him in
the estimation of any, and he declares
himself perfectly willing to die; in fact
he rather glOries in the prospect of an
early departure, but he manifests a
singular disinclinatiOn TO go alone. He
wants all the little band to be with him.
In the words of the old song he says,
''We are seyen," and he wants to keep
That Mystic Number
upon the scaffold, as it was in their
original conspiracy. The flamboyancy
of Spies is considerably moderated, but
the calm, unimpassiOned declarations of
Parsons are unchanged. The man is as
cool as cucumber and as calm as
June morning. Imagine him with his
wife and children yesterday. The little
ones were permitted to see and romp
and play with their father, and his wife,
with busine sSlike air. contented her
self with what are now commonplace
utteranceS, words of cheer and inspira-
ton along the line of their extreme
thought. To-day, knowing perfectly
NvaIl flof c1 l. NJ
Parsons talked about her husband and
his fate as quietly and as coolly as
though she were discussing the cut of
new gown or the issuing of new PAM
phlet. She was asked to-day why she
had not been up to the Jail, and she re-
piled that there was no special use in
going there. She could only see her
husband at distance and yell at him
across twelve feet of space in the hear
ing of a mob of morbid on-lookers, and
as for taking the children there again.
she certainly would not do so; that they
had taken her husband from his COM
pa ratively comfortable cell and put him
in what no one would call other than
dungeon, and that she much preferred
Sneered at and InsuIted
by their companions in the public
schools, should be able to remember
their father as they last saw him. happy.
freed, full of life and fun and jOllity.
with them, rather than to recall him as
a duSky form many feet away in an i'm
penetrable dungeon, where they would
not be permitted to go and from which
he could not come. That Nina Van
Zandt is just this side of lunacy is clear
and obvious. Her will is strong in one
direction only, and in that one direction
she is mOnOmaniac. She called at the
Jail to-day and was refused admission.
She has had her last talk. She has had
her last view of her so-to-speak hus-
band, and must now content herself
with the reminiScence. When told this
morning that she could not enter and
would not be permitted to see Spies
again she went away very sorrOwful,
and later in the day gave way to uncon-
trollable fits of hysteria which warrant
the gravest apprehensions for her men,
tai and physical future. Mrs. Parsons is
the plucky one. She was the first. it will
be remembered, to share her husbands
pillOry in the court rooms; she was the
first to go upon the street, and by the
sale of papers and books to do what she
could to nelp along the pecuniary situa-
ton. and she will be the last of all the
group of men and women to give the
faintest indication of yielding, of cow
ardipp mental moral Or rbVSica1 Che
has touched this point of philosophy.
To-day she discussed calmly her hus-
bands funeral, and said distinctly and
in terms that she had made every az
rangement for the disagreeable event.
but declined to communicate the details
to the innniSitive Marty who hronnbnd